 | Henry Martyn Harman - Egypt - 1873 - 348 pages
...unbelievers, their works are like the vapor in a plain (serab, mirage), which the thirsty traveler thinketh to be water, until, when he cometh thereto, he findeth it to be nothing." No better place can be found for consumptives than Suez in the winter season, but in summer the heat... | |
 | Charles Armar Wilkins - Discoveries in geography - 1876 - 328 pages
...to this phenomenon in the Sogdian desert ; and it is likewise mentioned iu the Koran — " But as to unbelievers, their works are like a vapour in a plain...when he cometh thereto, he findeth it to be nothing." The Arabian and Persian writers often describe the magical effects of the mirage, in the glowing language... | |
 | Islam - 1880 - 348 pages
...bestoweth on whom he pleaseth without measure. But as to the unbelievers, their works are like the vapour in a plain, which the thirsty traveller thinketh to be water, until, when he cometh thereto, he frndeth it to be nothing; but he findeth God with him, and he will fully pay him his account; and God... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1881 - 900 pages
...it, with as much accuracy as though it had been the face of a clear Bid still lake.'— Pottinger. * As to the unbelievers, their works are like a vapour in a plain, which the thirsty travel Ir tlnnkcth to be water, until when he Cometh (hereto he flndeth It to be nothing.'— Koran,... | |
 | Elwood Morris Wherry - 1882 - 448 pages
...bestoweth on whom he pleaseth without measure. (39) But as to the unbelievers, their works are like the vapour in a plain, which the thirsty traveller thinketh...when he cometh thereto, he findeth it to be nothing; but he findeth GOD with him, and he will fully pay him his account ; and GOD is swift iu taking an... | |
 | Elwood Morris Wherry - Koran - 1885 - 432 pages
...bestoweth on whom he pleaseth without measure. (39) But as to the unbelievers, their works are like the vapour in a plain, which the thirsty traveller thinketh...water, until, when he cometh thereto, he findeth it to le nothing ; but he findeth GOD with him, and he will fully pay him his account ; and GOD is swift... | |
 | Missions - 1884 - 308 pages
...Koran, our holy book, that 'the works of unbelievers are like the mirage in a plain, which the thirsty thinketh to be water ; until when he cometh thereto, he findeth it nothing.' " Soon after this we entered Lydd, where there are CMS schools for both boys and girls. In... | |
 | Thomas Moore - English poetry - 1895 - 838 pages
...face of a clear and still lake." — Pottinger, " As to the unbelievers, their works are like a vapor in a plain, which the thirsty traveller thinketh to...when he Cometh thereto he findeth it to be nothing." — Koran, chap. 24. 3 " A wind which prevails in February, called Bidmusk, from a small and odoriferous... | |
 | Thomas Moore - English poetry - 1895 - 874 pages
...face of a clear and still lake."— Pottitttrcr. "As to the unbelievers, their works are like a vapor in a plain, which the thirsty traveller thinketh to be water, until when he cometh thereto he tindeth it to be nothing." — AVr/i», chap. 24. 3 " A wind which prevails in February, called Bidmusk,... | |
 | 1896 - 432 pages
...bestoweth on whom he pleaseth without measure. (39) But as to the unbelievers, their works are like the vapour in a plain, which the thirsty traveller thinketh...when he cometh thereto, he findeth it to be nothing ; but he findeth GOD with him, and he will fully pay him his account; and GOD is swift in taking an... | |
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As to the unbelievers, their works are like a vapour in a plain, which the thirsty traveller thinketh to be water, until when he cometh thereto he findeth it to be nothing. 
